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the_ignored
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Posted - 03/20/2009 :  13:37:08  Show Profile Send the_ignored a Private Message  Reply with Quote
PZ Myers has this story of some pastor caught lying for jesus.

In a few hours, he went from apologizing for our past dealings with slimy lying Christians, to suggesting it's okay to abuse women, kill neighbors, and slaughter children under the guise of atheism.

So I banned him. I found what he did to be disgusting. It would be like me pretending to me multiple Christians on a Christian blog, asserting there's nothing wrong with raping women and killing children because God commands it in the Bible.

Who would do such a stupid thing?

It turns out, a pastor would. After some more digging, I was able to figure out the commenter's identity: Pastor Chris Fox of Kendalls Baptist Church in New London, NC.

Way to lie for Jesus, pastor! I'm sure you make your congregation proud.


The guy later apologized, I guess.


Guess who that reminds you of?

>From: enuffenuff@fastmail.fm
(excerpt follows):
> I'm looking to teach these two bastards a lesson they'll never forget.
> Personal visit by mates of mine. No violence, just a wee little chat.
>
> **** has also committed more crimes than you can count with his
> incitement of hatred against a religion. That law came in about 2007
> much to ****'s ignorance. That is fact and his writing will become well
> know as well as him becoming a publicly known icon of hatred.
>
> Good luck with that fuckwit. And Reynold, fucking run, and don't stop.
> Disappear would be best as it was you who dared to attack me on my
> illness knowing nothing of the cause. You disgust me and you are top of
> the list boy. Again, no violence. Just regular reminders of who's there
> and visits to see you are behaving. Nothing scary in reality. But I'd
> still disappear if I was you.

What brought that on? this. Original posting here.

Another example of this guy's lunacy here.

Edited by - the_ignored on 03/20/2009 13:38:06

H. Humbert
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Posted - 03/20/2009 :  13:53:55   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send H. Humbert a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Originally posted by the_ignored
The guy later apologized, I guess.
Nope.
Isn't it interesting that a pastor comes here to preach morality and salvation to us sinful atheists, but then lies about his identity numerous times in order to slander atheism — and even when caught, refuses to acknowledge he did anything wrong.

Edit: Never mind. Apparently there was an update saying the pastor eventually apologized. Took a few days of mulling it over, I guess, before he could admit that what he did might be considered immoral. Maybe he had to pray on it.


"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." --Demosthenes

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman

"Face facts with dignity." --found inside a fortune cookie
Edited by - H. Humbert on 03/20/2009 13:58:13
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HalfMooner
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Posted - 03/20/2009 :  16:09:26   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send HalfMooner a Private Message  Reply with Quote
What's interesting to me isn't that a Christian like Pastor Chris Fox would dishonestly pose as an immoral atheist. (After all, isn't "pious fraud" a traditional part of the preachers' job description?)

What interests me is that atheists would immediately spot that immoral pose as not fitting with the behavior of any of the atheists they know. That atheists themselves saw this at once as suspiciously bizarre behavior for one of their own is compelling evidence that they are indeed not immoral beasts.

Since the Pastor Chris Fox was trying to pull off a scam based upon the believability of his pose, I would conclude that he really does (or did) have a false idea that the godless are immoral by nature. Otherwise, he'd have greatly refined his pose. I hope, but doubt, that he's learned a bit from this.


Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive.
Edited by - HalfMooner on 03/20/2009 16:55:03
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